It was reported in late May this year that by that time there had already been at least 72 executions in Iran in 2026. It was also noted that 25 of these executions were of political and ‘security related’ prisoners. Meanwhile other prisoners remain under the threat of death sentences in prisons throughout Iran.
I spoke to Mitra Farmani about the latest executions in Iran and what is happening there.
How are you involved?
I am 57 years old and I am based in Newcastle, although I was born in Iran. I am still fighting about the hijab law that the government in Iran changed in 1979, after the Islamic Revolution.
In 2022 in the UK, I got involved in the Women, Life, Freedom movement and I was one of those who started gathering at the Monument in Newcastle. I went on a number of demonstrations. Now here we are again.
This is not just a revolution. It is about the people who were killed after the demonstrations in January this year, people massacred by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps (IRGC). I have to be my people’s voice.
It was hard to find out what was going on and then the war happened. I want the regime out and so from now on, if necessary, I will sacrifice my life for the country I love and I think that across the world Iranians should be respected like they were before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
After I started fighting, I went around the country and collected pictures of the victims from January, who are aged from two years old upwards. Then in Newcastle, with some help, I put together a wall with the photographs of 1,000 victims and showed it at the Quayside.
However, the media was saying nothing about the victims.
I started talking to people about the victims and why they were being killed. People got mixed up and thought that they were victims of the war, so I had to explain how they were victims of the Iranian government. I was talking to people about what had happened.
Why is the situation regarding executions in Iran so bad?
It has always been. Now peaceful demonstrations have stopped in case people end up being executed. The Iranian regime has killed 1,500 students and thrown them out of student campuses. But this is not just a fight against executions.
Mhasa Amini was murdered in 2022 and the regime has never stopped executing innocent people.
People arrested following the demonstrations in January have been gaoled, tortured and raped. One woman was filming with her phone at a demo and now she is going to be executed.
They are killing at least 20 to 30 people per week, who are being executed for peacefully demonstrating and filming.
They have even executed doctors and nurses who helped the injured people in January.
The world doesn’t want to get involved because of the price of oil.
What might happen next?
Iranians need weapons so that they can rise up. The world needs to be peaceful but how can it be a peaceful world, when the Iranian regime support terrorism in many places? The world should get rid of the Iranian government
I support the return of the monarchy because I see how we are now 100 years behind with Sharia Law and so on. Iran has a great heritage going back to people like Cyrus the Great, who was mentioned in the Bible, working for humanity.
What should the UK government do?
The Iranian regime is causing trouble in the UK through the IRGC. They have a lot of assets in the UK and those assets should be frozen. The Iranian embassy is not an embassy for Iran but for the IRGC. How do the government allow terrorists in the embassy? Over 200 Iranians have demonstrated calling for the embassy to be closed.
I do not feel safe and the UK government should be keeping me safe, but they close their eyes to what is happening.
What should people do?
Ordinary people should think not just about how this is about Iran but that a safe Middle East makes for a safe world. We are fighting for humanity and want people to think that way. Enjoying this they could ask their MP on the government why this is happening.
The Iranian regime is a threat to world peace we need to get rid of this of the Islamic government in Iran.
My goal is to get people to understand this and now my focus is to stop the executions in Iran.
There will be a march from the Monument to the Baltic on the September and another demonstration on 27 September.
